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Ok, here is a question that would be interesting for someone to provide an answer to: If Hayflick's limit is true (or even maybe true) for regular cel...
August 23, 2022 at 18:11
I think I more or less agree with your statement if it is about that the Abrahamic religions provide an unsatisfactory answer as too why we have to di...
August 23, 2022 at 16:56
The only reason you believe death is inevitable is because all of your life you have seen anything that lives eventually dies. Before the invention of...
August 23, 2022 at 16:48
Biological immortality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
August 23, 2022 at 16:24
One of the things I was hoping somebody would bring up is the fact that ANY AND ALL LIFE (complex or not) REQUIRES a means/process to create a line of...
August 23, 2022 at 15:54
I will try to read up on this more, but I think the problem with "entropy" isn't an issue that is just something that affects organic systems but it i...
August 23, 2022 at 15:37
I have heard about both the supposedly immortal cancer cells that continually grow and are used in medical research and about CRISPR. To be honest, I ...
August 23, 2022 at 15:23
Again like Alkis Piskas's post, this is just an appeal to authority/antiquity. While there may be issues if the human population getting too big, for ...
August 23, 2022 at 15:20
And a few hundred years ago people where saying that if man was meant to fly God would have given us wings. Both that argument and yours is really jus...
August 23, 2022 at 15:16
This sounds more or less the old conventional way of thinking when it comes to "life extension" - proper diet, avoiding high risk activities, getting ...
August 23, 2022 at 15:11
Fermi's Paradox isn't really a "paradox" since there are many, many reasons why we haven't been contacted by E.T.s yet. The first one is that we HAVE ...
August 22, 2022 at 16:31
To be honest I think I got a little lost in this discussion, although this is what usually happens - it's either that or it goes dead by now. The only...
August 06, 2022 at 16:04
I will try to look at all of these when I get a chance. If you have more links/sources I'm happy to look into them as well but I will admit it might t...
August 06, 2022 at 15:55
I guess we don't really know if she and her husband somehow made tons of money on the trip, but then again we really don't know if he trip was just an...
August 06, 2022 at 15:29
If one is the biggest super power in the world and wishes to remain so, they must be willing to defend themselves (and their allies) against all poten...
August 06, 2022 at 15:21
If I had more time I would post all the links I found but unfortunately I don't. Below is a link to a discussion that was going on where China was alm...
August 03, 2022 at 16:33
I agree, however on the other hand by them acting like a child and constantly throwing temper tantrums in a way it kind of helps the US/Taiwan and our...
August 03, 2022 at 15:05
If you really believe that the US military might stand back while China invades Taiwan because they "recognize" the "One China policy" then I got some...
August 03, 2022 at 15:01
I added it to Amazon wish list and will but it when I get the chance. :D
August 02, 2022 at 18:25
I think the language used in describing the situation is something like that if China attacks Taiwan, then the US will help Taiwan but not if Taiwan a...
August 02, 2022 at 18:16
Stop and think for a second, what real "threat" is there for China if Pelosi goes to Taiwan? The real answer is simply there isn't any, other than it ...
August 02, 2022 at 17:40
Exactly, if China was smart they would just keep quiet about it. The more they threaten and pound their chest without doing anything the more impotent...
August 02, 2022 at 17:05
It is better for the US and our allies to pay little to no attention to China's threats, so I believe it is better for Pelosi does go to Taiwan. Becau...
August 02, 2022 at 16:53
If China really wants to attack, they will attack but it is pretty much a given they would be complete fools to do so. Unlike Ukraine, the US has pled...
August 02, 2022 at 16:43
I don't know if it is still relevant, but the some of the issues in this thread has been discussed in a previous thread I made months ago before even ...
August 02, 2022 at 16:34
You are partly right, the money in our pockets are merely "IOUs" from the government and they are only worth something if the government and other pow...
August 02, 2022 at 16:29
I disagree. One of the easiest (if not THE MOST EASIEST) to make money today is to find a way to exploit others. By either making others feel like the...
August 02, 2022 at 16:10
But what is the rich you are describing are acting like demons? Has anyone ever said we shouldn't demonize people like Hitler, the Nazis, or Putin and...
August 02, 2022 at 15:59
I agree. I could be wrong but it seemed like during the Cold War, those in power in capitalist countries like the US were a little more careful in how...
August 02, 2022 at 15:50
Here are a couple videos/links on this subject: Mother Jones - It’s the Inequality, Stupid https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequal...
August 02, 2022 at 15:38
I agree.
August 02, 2022 at 15:27
I could be wrong but many of our current problems are not all that new. In a many ways the issue of "class warfare" has been going on since about the ...
August 02, 2022 at 15:26
The question I wonder about is HOW much worse it has to get before more people realize what is going on.
August 02, 2022 at 15:22
No, I have more or less know this for some time. It has only become more painfully obvious for some time. We live in a society that often tries to bra...
August 02, 2022 at 15:20
:up:
August 02, 2022 at 15:12
I agree.
August 02, 2022 at 15:11
How can you be sure that it isn't like organized crime in that there is a active conspiracy among certain wealthy people to undermine those that are e...
August 02, 2022 at 15:09
Sorry I'm late in replying.. my home computer isn't really working right now so I usually have to go to the look at and reply to forum messages. I jus...
August 02, 2022 at 15:01
I think i more or less agree. Modern religion is having a hard time trying to prove that any "supernatural" event and/or being isn't anything more tha...
June 04, 2022 at 15:34
The natural order of things more or less maintains that EVERYTHING that exists has to obey certain laws. If something was able to do things that broke...
June 04, 2022 at 15:19
Yes, I too agree that 180 Proof is a modern day version of Socrates. :grin:
May 31, 2022 at 14:17
To the best of human knowledge (at the present time) "God" ,as he is defined by Abrahamic religions, does not exist. Why this is would require a very ...
May 24, 2022 at 15:03
I'm sorry I haven't paid attention for awhile (although by now it feels a lot like beating a dead horse) but I just remembered something that I read s...
May 21, 2022 at 17:01
I think part of the issue is that it is nearly impossible for someone to change their point of view even when they are faced with information that sho...
May 11, 2022 at 17:31
Yeah, when I read that it kind of made my head spin as well. It looks like NOS4A2 is willing to blame people in the State for being willing and going ...
May 11, 2022 at 16:24
:up: Laissez faire and Ayn Rand Objectivism are just BS/fantasy world for the uber rich (and the idiots they have brainwashed to think like them) that...
May 11, 2022 at 15:57
:up: I'm not sure exactly what it means but I like it. :grin:
May 11, 2022 at 15:19
This is just more of the same Ayn Rand type BS you have already been spouting. You think that the State itself decided to allow itself to manipulated ...
May 11, 2022 at 15:15
:up: I think you are more or less correct in this in that before now we used to have theologians discuss/argue about whatever the nature of the world ...
May 11, 2022 at 14:03
:up:
May 10, 2022 at 17:33